The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-25
CITY NOTES.

CITY NOTES.
The new gas pipes of the Palatka Gas
Light and Fuel Company are being
placed along the streets where it is pro
posed to extend the lines, and they will
be put under ground in a few days. The
main pipe will be extended long dis
lance out Lemon street.
The dance to be given at Lucas Hall
this evening by the young men of the
city, promises to be a lively and pleas
ant affair. A large number of couples
will attend and, as the hall is very cool,
and the music will be good, all who may
go may expect happy evening.
Our nurserymen are selling large
quantities of orange trees for shipment
to California, which are shipped from
this section in one hundred thousand
fornia for Florida nursery trees, and the
prices promise to be better this fall than
ever before.
Mr.. r. j. Rifles will be found in his
Lemon street, this morning, he having
moved his stock last night. The store
has been handsomely fitted up, and
when he gets his goods arranged and
properly displayed, he will have one of
the prettiest jewelry stores in the coun-
try.
The citizens of Peniel, always anxious
to come together in social affairs, are ar
ranging for grand Fourth of July cele
bration. One of the characteristic feat
ures of Pencil gatherings is the splendid
dinners the good housewives out there
know sowell how to get up, and this
coming celebration will be no exception
to the rule in that respect.
The membership of the Palatka Board
of Trade continues to grow, and the pub
lie interest in the success of the organi-
zation is undated. The Board has a
number of very important matters under
consideration, and when the reports
come in ON the first Monday of next
month it will be shown that a great deal
has been done for the good of the city.
Several young men in town are con-
sidering the question of organizing a
row-boat club, for the purpose of exer-
else and sport. A number of them
already own boats, and such an organi-
zation would no doubt be very popular
during the summer months. Besides
furnishing plenty of healthy exercise,
the club would give the young men
plenty of sport.
The committee of the Palatka Board
of Trade having i'm charge the matter of
constructing a driveway, are hard at
work, and are meeting with due amount
OF encouragement. They brought the
matter before the City Council last night.
and that body will consider the question
at its next meeting and decide whether
the city will assist in its construction or
not.
The citizens are waking up on the ques-
ton of cleaning up the city and doing
away with all the nuisances that are
likely to interfere with the good health
Of the town. The Board OF Trade has
drawn up an excellent ordinance provid-
ing for the appointment of a health
officer and inspectors, and a special meet
ing of the Council will be held for its
consideration this afternoon.
The City Sanitary Inspector is still en-
ployed in making his rounds. He in
forms us that he finds many filthy
premises and bad places, which the
owners have promised to clean up. He
VIII continue in the work until every
house in the city is visited. and a true
and faithful report of the condition of
each lot viii be made to the Mayor and
Council. Clean up, and put your
premises in a healthy and respectable
condition.
Mr.. w. G.. Notes, whose farming CD
erations on the Heights we had occasion
to mention few days since. has lost
most of his fine corn crop. Some of the
hungry thieves, know the excellence of
ms roasting ears, and Saturday night
last about demolished his corn patch.
and are no doubt yet feasting on the
corn 1t is needless to say that Mr..
Notes Is mad, and has fixed some of
ms watermelons so that whoever steals
them may have the pleasure of furnish
ing the subject for funeral.
A gentleman who was on the north
bound Jacksonville, Tampa and Kew
West Railway passenger train yesterday
morning informs us that when the news
boy met the train up the road with the
morning papers, that he noticed the sale
among the passengers. The boy offered
the Jacksonville Ne,rs and Times Union.
ana The PALATKA NEWS. He sold five
copies of THE PALATKA NEWS and three
copies OF the Jacksonville Ners but not
one Oh the Times Union. And yet the
so-ca'ied great and good continually
ton